Bar Council Delay Keeps Premier Nagpur Law Colleges Off Admission List Thousands of law aspirants across Maharashtra face uncertainty as several prominent law colleges, including Nagpur University’s Dr Ambedkar School of Law and Dr Ambedkar College at Deekshabhoomi, were excluded from the centralised admission process for the five-year LLB programme. The Bar Council of India (BCI) has yet to grant mandatory approvals, leaving students unable to select some of the state’s most sought-after government and aided law colleges before the Aug 7 deadline. The Directorate of Higher Education (DHE) reported that only 66 colleges offering the five-year integrated LLB programme, with 5,955 seats, and 102 colleges offering the three-year LLB course, with 10,105 seats, were cleared for the first admission round. This contrasts with nearly 20,000 applicants for the five-year course and around 54,000 applicants for the three-year programme, severely limiting options for aspiring law students. Nagpur University officials have requested the state government to allow candidates to revise their preference forms before the second CAP round after additional colleges receive BCI approval, and again before the third round if more institutions are cleared. This measure aims to prevent students from being locked into preferences submitted when several prominent colleges were unavailable. Every law college must obtain annual BCI approval before admitting students. While NU law school principal Ravi Mor could not be contacted, college authorities stated they had met the prescribed requirements. However, the approval process was delayed as universities took longer than expected to issue affiliation certificates.#nagpur_university #bar_council_of_india #directorates_of_higher_education #dr_ambedkar_school_of_law #dr_ambedkar_college_deekshabhoomi
